{"id":1154,"date":"2022-01-15T12:39:23","date_gmt":"2022-01-15T12:39:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/ethiopia-challenge-accepted-as-abiy-calls-diaspora-home-for-christmas"},"modified":"2022-01-15T13:23:54","modified_gmt":"2022-01-15T13:23:54","slug":"ethiopia-challenge-accepted-as-abiy-calls-diaspora-home-for-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\/all-news\/ethiopia-challenge-accepted-as-abiy-calls-diaspora-home-for-christmas","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopia: \u2018Challenge Accepted\u2019 as Abiy calls Diaspora home for Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Botswana. <\/strong><\/span><b>Thousands of diaspora Ethiopians are returning to their homeland this month after the government called on them to visit as part of an initiative dubbed \u201cThe Great Ethiopian Homecoming\u201d.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The Ethiopian government challenged one million Ethiopians living abroad to come home for the Ethiopian Orthodox Christian festive period that started on Christmas Day on 7 January and lasts until the festival of epiphany on 19 January.<\/p>\n<p><b>Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed\u2019s government launched the initiative<\/b><\/p>\n<p>in late November as fighting raged in the north of the country. A surge south by the Tigray People\u2019s Liberation Front (TPLF) rebel group had brought it within 200km of Addis Ababa, the capital, after more than one year of fighting, prompting an exodus of foreign diplomats who feared the city could fall.<\/p>\n<p>But a government counteroffensive, supported by drones and hastily mobilised militias, has succeeded in halting the advance of the TPLF rebels, who have now retreated to their northern Tigray region.<\/p>\n<p><b>\u201cWe are not only fighting the war but also the campaign to weaken Ethiopia \u2013 Abiy<\/b><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are not only fighting the war but also the campaign to weaken Ethiopia \u2013 Abiy<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/botswana\">Botswana<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Botswana. Thousands of diaspora Ethiopians are returning to their homeland this month after the government called on them to visit as part of an initiative dubbed \u201cThe Great Ethiopian Homecoming\u201d. The Ethiopian government challenged one million Ethiopians living abroad to come home for the Ethiopian Orthodox Christian festive period that started on Christmas [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":1153,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,8,12,13,16],"tags":[233,237,234],"class_list":["post-1154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-community","category-homepage-english","category-policy","category-social","category-twitter","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-botswana","tag-botswana"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Ethiopia: \u2018Challenge Accepted\u2019 as Abiy calls Diaspora home for Christmas - Botswana<\/title>\n<meta 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